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What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.
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Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.
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[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.
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In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.
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The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.
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No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.
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...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.
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I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.
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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
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My father has been a rock for me every since.
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I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.
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The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
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I believe that there are moments in sex that are so awesome that they actually reflect God.
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The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
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What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.
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Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.
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Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.
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If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.
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I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.
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The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
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